anyway add to the pot a crying toddler stuck in a buggy with the most dodgiest of wheels and you can be sure that it really wasn't one of my best outings!!
anyway it was proving to be a real horrendous day and i was a little bit tense to say the least!!..
so just before i left for the train i popped in to the Cath Kidston shop just to have a look round and you know what .. it instantly calmed me !! ( think the fact that the baby had fallen asleep at this point so i could have a proper look round helped to!)
oh i love that shop..i love the bright colours and the prettiest things ever on show .. i even love the shop assistants!!.. in a city full of orange faces and blank stares looking back at you over the till they all seem so wholesome in their pretty tea dresses and pleasant expressions actually happy to help!!!..
i so want to work there it would fill me with happiness i should imagine!!
anyway as i had literally spent up on the children's clothes that day ( bah these pesky kids and their growth spurts!) i didn't have much to spend on me, but i did pick up this little beauty and it was actually a rather practical buy to considering the boys have managed to smash the previous ones that we've had
so here we have my "Good for the soul" purchase of the day .. a soap dish holder!!
how something so small and trivial can bring sheer happiness is probably really sad but not to me.. but then small things appeal to small minds don't they!!!
i love it.. and i love how the rose goes with my rose wallpaper
and i also love how its not going anywhere this cant be used as a boat when the boys are in the bath thus preserving its use for a bit longer than the previous soap dishes have fared!!
and i also love how its not going anywhere this cant be used as a boat when the boys are in the bath thus preserving its use for a bit longer than the previous soap dishes have fared!!
so the next time you are out in town and not having a good day ..nip into CK and feel the calmness come over you... or simply leave the kids at home that might help to!!
Now that is good advice - except my nearest store is 60 odd miles away :(
ReplyDeleteVery pretty soap dish and practical too :)
I can understand the boys & growing lark too - mine seem to have shot up (again) during the hols.
I love that, just the sort of thing that would sit in my bathroom beautifully! Going to Liverpool this weekend for a few days (but no kids)Hoping things will have settled a bit by then, but not the age to be wandering about the city at night so keeping fingers crossed.
ReplyDeleteYeap I feel the same! I had a HORRENDOUS trip out at the weekend with the bears. My stress levels were through the roof, but a quick trip into CK on my way back to the car (and a few mugs in the bag) proved a life saver! It's amazing what that shop can do! ha ha!
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ReplyDeleteChillin in CK, beats tranquelizers any day! lol! I love that soap dish, it is so pretty!
ReplyDeleteI didn't even know there was a CK in Liverpool! must look out for that next time I go. I love the soap holder, glad it brought a smile to your face on a bad day!
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Buying pretties makes you feel so good doesnt it!?! I agree totally! And that was def a pretty you bought.
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Visiting a lovely shop with cheery assistants is always a welcome break from a horrible shopping trip. I've never been to a CK, a nice charity shop does it for me. x
ReplyDeleteGreat tip, will blame you when hubby asks why I am in CK again ;) lol! great dish I saw this the other day and resisted, it looks fab in your bathroom.
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Have a delicious day!
That soapdish is perfect in your bathroom! What a great find. And a little cheery-uppy gift for oneself is always worthwhile!
ReplyDeleteLove your earlier 'flowers' post; it looks lovely.As Alan Titchmarsh was wont to say, "Give it a good dose of looking at"!, particularly when it looks that pretty!
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Awww, such a pretty soap dish! I love how little things like that can brighten up a day.
ReplyDeleteThere is something about Cath Kidston shops isn't there? I remember when the one in Edinburgh opened a few years ago, my flatmate and I looked round it for a whole hour! (mouth open, drooling, oohing and aahing, stroking items for a questionable length of time) I would love to work there.
Thanks Charl! Yes, we can def relax now and I can start buying pretties again! lol!
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LOVE the soap dish.. I've had my eye on that very one for some time now. But as we're renting here I can't really get away with putting it up. :-( Thanks for popping over to my blog and leaving a lovely comment.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if I should say this or not, but I find it quite hard to read your writing on your blog. I think maybe it's because the pink writing is so small and fine.. or maybe I'm just a blind-bat! I only thought I'd mention it because a few months back I had similar writing and someone said the same thing to me..
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Now I'm worrying if I should have said anything or not... maybe it's just unclear on My laptop! :S haha
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kids n shopping trips are so tricky- isles are aways annoying not enough space- so you get huffy puffy woman like they never had a kid in push chair getting moody cos your prams in the way...when i know i have to get the food shop i dread it, cos i know i have to take my daughter and its just always hard saying 'no' to everything she picks up- always end up coming home with out essential items grrrrr....sophia is usually well behaved but its hard to look through shops with kids running off and trying to keep eyes on them as well as looking for yourself. LOVE the soap dish...i went to CK store in covent garden- it was blissful- tho no room to see much as soooo many peps in it.
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Loving the soap dish, not seen that in my local CK department.
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